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The hill I will die on: Fruit with meat? What kind of pervert are you? | Katy Guest
NEWS | 25 December 2025
And yes, you perverts, I do mean turkey and cranberry sauce – just stop putting jam on your Christmas dinner! I know what you’re going to say: “But surely you don’t mean pork with apple sauce?” You bet I mean it. You’re so wrong. Don’t get me wrong, I love meat – ideally with gravy – and then fruit, for pudding. Because a tomato identifies as a vegetable and should be accommodated as such – and that is a hill I will die on.

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‘Dancing on bones’: Mariupol theatre to reopen with staging of Russian fairytale
NEWS | 25 December 2025
Russian and Soviet classics have returned to the stage,” said the theatre in a statement about its plans for the future. View image in fullscreen Workers take part in the reconstruction of a theatre building, which was destroyed in 2022. The calling card of the theatre-in-exile has been a play called Mariupol Drama, which is based on the events in February and March at the Mariupol theatre, and which has toured across Europe over the past year. Sosnovsky said he had found his Mariupol apartment on the “ownerless” list, and has accepted he will lose the property. View image in fullscreen An aerial view shows the destroyed theatre building.

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Israeli police arrest Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus at Christmas party
NEWS | 25 December 2025
Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus during a raid on a Christmas party in Haifa, a civil rights monitor has said. Israeli officers closed an event celebrating Christmas on Sunday, confiscating equipment, and arresting the Palestinian Santa Claus, as well as a DJ and a street vendor. The Israeli police said in a statement that the man wearing the Santa Claus costume resisted arrest and assaulted an officer. Israeli attacks continued despite the holiday. Attacks by Israelis targeting Christians have been on the rise, with a March report documenting 32 attacks on church properties and 45 physical attacks targeting Christians.

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‘It’s the wildest place I have walked’: new national park will join up Chile’s 2,800km wildlife corridor
NEWS | 25 December 2025
Chile’s government is poised to create the country’s 47th national park, protecting nearly 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of pristine wilderness and completing a wildlife corridor stretching 1,700 miles (2,800km) to the southernmost tip of the Americas. The Cape Froward national park is a wild expanse of wind-torn coastline and forested valleys that harbours unrivalled biodiversity and has played host to millennia of human history. Photograph: Pablo Sanhueza/ReutersIt is the 17th national park created or expanded in Chile and Argentina by Tompkins Conservation and its successor organisation, Rewilding Chile. In 2023, they signed an agreement with the Chilean government to donate the land to become Cape Froward national park. Photograph: Pablo Sanhueza/ReutersBut there are still a number of steps before the national park officially comes into existence.

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US justice department says it may need ‘a few more weeks’ to process 1m more Epstein documents for release
NEWS | 25 December 2025
According to Axios, which cited unnamed justice department officials, about 750,000 records have been reviewed and disclosed, and about 700,000 more remain to be examined. At the weekend there was outrage from victims and legal threats over the limited initial Epstein files release despite the law requiring full disclosure of all Epstein files by 19 December. “There has been lots of sensationalism and even outright lies these past few days about the ‘Epstein Files’,” Blanche said in a statement on X. “The so-called Epstein Nassar letter is clearly FAKE – wrong handwriting, wrong return address, and postmarked three days after Epstein died. Let’s not let internet rumor engines outrun the facts.”The latest release of Epstein files cast some light on the FBI’s effort to identify and contact additional possible “conspirators”.

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Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message
NEWS | 25 December 2025
Pope Leo has told Christians that the Christmas story should remind them of their duty to help the poor and strangers. “On earth, there is no room for God if there is no room for the human person. Leo, the first US-born pope, is celebrating his first Christmas after being elected in May by the world’s cardinals to succeed the late Pope Francis. The pope, who has criticised Donald Trump’s divisive immigration crackdown, quoted a line from Pope Benedict XVI lamenting that the world does not care for children, the poor or foreigners. “Where there is room for the human person, there is room for God.

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Ukrainian refugee leaves UK sixth-form college that urged her ‘to study Russian’
NEWS | 25 December 2025
A Ukrainian refugee has been forced to drop out of sixth-form college after she said she was put under pressure to study Russian. But the 19-year-old said that when she ran into difficulty with her subjects, teachers tried to persuade her to study Russian instead. She told the Guardian that studying Russian was “against my personal principle because I was born [in Donetsk] where the war started in 2014. She claims the college did not provide her with extra support but instead tried to persuade her to take up A-level Russian. AQA has said it is considering developing a GCSE in the Ukrainian language, however it is understood that this could take a couple of years.

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Hundreds of thousands newly displaced as Islamic State insurgency expands in Mozambique
NEWS | 25 December 2025
More than 300,000 people have been displaced by an Islamic State insurgency in Mozambique since July, amid growing fears that authorities lack a workable plan to end the fighting. “And more importantly, the government wants the Mozambican forces to take the lead in the conflict and then Rwanda stays in the back,” he said. Since 2017, almost 2,800 civilians have been killed, 80% by IS and more than 9% by Mozambican forces. Mozambique’s president, Daniel Chapo, who took office in January after hundreds of people were killed by security forces following disputed elections, told Al Jazeera in September that he wanted dialogue with the insurgents. Nhamirre said: “First you need to ask what [objective] the Rwandan and Mozambican forces had.

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Falling price of cocaine forces drug traffickers to reuse narco-submarines, say Spanish police
NEWS | 25 December 2025
In September this year, the Policía Nacional arrested 14 people and seized 3.65 tonnes of cocaine allegedly brought to Galicia by narco-sub. Officers from the brigade’s synthetic drugs and precursors department say they have dismantled more amphetamine, methamphetamine and MDMA laboratories in Spain over the past two years than in the previous 18. Drug seizures from those facilities have included more than five tonnes of MDMA, 450kg of amphetamine sulphate and 27kg of methamphetamine. Although the overwhelming majority of synthetic drug manufacture has historically taken place in the Netherlands – where police dismantle about 100 clandestine labs a year – gangs are continuing to branch out across Europe. “We’ve been pretty surprised by the synthetic drugs phenomenon because of the numbers of the laboratories we’re dismantling and because of the nature of some of these laboratories,” he said.

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From childhood staple to luxury food: how Nigeria’s jollof became too expensive to eat
NEWS | 25 December 2025
“You will spend a lot for the ingredients to cook jollof rice that will be to your taste,” George, who works as a cashier, says. Jollof rice is beloved across West Africa with each country, and each family, having its own ways of preparing it. A true Nigerian staple at parties and family lunch, when jollof rice is served its smoky aroma draws everybody’s attention. In Ghana, where jollof rice is similarly popular, the cost of making the meal is also proving a burden for families. View image in fullscreen The price of plantain, which is often served with jollof rice, has also increased.

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Dordogne murder mystery: British woman’s death confounds detectives
NEWS | 25 December 2025
The quiet village of Trémolat nestled in the Dordogne valley is best known for its “cingle”, where the sinuous river forms an Instagrammable loop. Carter, who bought the gites with her 65-year-old husband, Alan Carter, 15 years ago, divided her time between the Dordogne and the home the couple shared in the city of East London, South Africa. View image in fullscreen The home of Karen and Alan Carter in Trémolat. It has emerged that Carter was discovered by a 75-year-old businessman, Jean-François Guerrier, with whom she was reportedly in a relationship. “It was in the early 1990s that our stars collided,” Alan Carter reportedly told the wake.

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‘We were treated like enemies of society’: Japan’s dangerous hardcore punk scene looks back to its roots
NEWS | 25 December 2025
There are hardcore bands on talkshows, in fast-food ads and on $40 T-shirts – all things that the 1980s artists would probably have gobbed at. “It was the feeling of: ‘I want to do something myself.’ A punk band was something anyone could do,” he says. Hardcore punk was perfect for expressing the hopeless anger of my teenage years.”View image in fullscreen Lip Cream on stage in 1984. There were so many hardcore bands; there were gigs all over the place every week. “Bastard was never a violent band, but we still had a lot of trouble,” he says.

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My weirdest Christmas: the oven was broken, the turkey was raw and all the crisps had been eaten …
NEWS | 25 December 2025
The roasted turkey aroma that usually wafted throughout the house on Christmas Day was conspicuous by its absence. My mum had spent the morning meticulously plucking fresh herbs and seasoning our plump bird but, so far, no scent. The much-anticipated Christmas roast had been in the oven for about four hours and it was nearing 7pm. My mum set about dismembering the poor bird, as cold, sloppy juices splattered on to the worktop. Finally, at midnight, Christmas dinner was served.

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Michael Mann: ‘I make films for a large presentation’
NEWS | 25 December 2025
It took director and writer Michael Mann just five weeks to adapt Thomas Harris’s novel Red Dragon for the screen. But when it came to adapting his own work – Heat 2, co-authored with Meg Gardiner as both a prequel and sequel to his 1995 film Heat – Mann discovered the pain of self-editing. “I make films for a large presentation,” he adds. Mann hired former SAS operatives Andy McNab and Mick Gould to train the cast in realistic firearms handling. Photograph: Ronald GrantHeat ends with Hanna chasing McCauley to a vast, open field adjacent to the Los Angeles international airport runways.